The Buddhabrot is a rendering technique related to the Mandelbrot set. A colored point in typical Mandelbrot images indicate the number of iterations of the Mandelbrot function that were needed to discover that it is not in the set. In a corresponding Buddhabrot image, the brightness of a pixel is proportional to the frequency with which all escaping trajectories hit that pixel. Its name reflects its pareidolic resemblance to classical depictions of Gautama Buddha, seated in a meditation pose with a forehead mark (tikka) and traditional topknot (ushnisha).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot
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